His horse Pen pronounced no longer up to his weight, and swapped her for another for which he had to pay rather a heavy figure.

" Tutt gasped audibly, for the name was that of one of Manhattan's most distinguished families, the founder of which had swapped glass beads and red-flannel shirts with the aborigines for what was now the most precious water frontage in the worldand moreover, Mrs. Allison informed Tutt, he was a clergyman.

Good bows are valued very highly, and on an otter expedition will not be swapped even for a rifle.

The theory is that we two had betrayed you, Rammy, and swapped the letter against his bare promise to pay us in Damascus.

For twenty minutes after that Hadad and Jeremy swapped reminiscences in quick staccato time.

Deacon Pitkin did a putty fair stroke o' business when he swapped off his old place for this 'ere.

He invited me to go with him for a day's ride through the country where the very first blows were swapped in the western theater of hostilities.

We swapped commonplaces, I telling him what my business there was; and for a little while he plied his knife and fork busily, making the heavy gold curb chain on his left wrist tinkle musically.

Van Hee swapped cigarettes with them and gossiped in their native tongue, in return for which they gave us some good advice.

It suddenly occurred to me, that in the confusion of changin cars that mornin, that, likely as not, I'de got swapped off with some cullered preacher.

Wellington swapped his fish for supper and a bed at a neighbor's, and during the evening learned from several sources that the strange white man had been at his house the afternoon of the day before.

His outlook was very dark, and there sprang up within him a wild longing to get back to North Carolina,back to the little whitewashed cabin, shaded with china and mulberry trees; back to the wood-pile and the garden; back to the old cronies with whom he had swapped lies and tobacco for so many years.

"My brother Joe married Luvenia Omsted and Lewis Omsted married my sister Betsy and Mars Tom Williams swapped the women.

But this suggestion will hardly appeal to them if, as Lord LEVERHULME declared, Labour would have made a poor bargain if it had swapped its increased wages for all the excess profits made during the War.

You must remember that we swapped horses at the last minute.

Don Ramón would give a lot of money to a womangrantedbut he wouldn't have swapped all the beauties on earth put together for a single vote!

He sold his gun for £15 and swapped horses againthis time giving £7 l0s.

"Parson Hammond hath swapped horses.

But when your ma swapped the big house and the eighteen niggers for me and an old mammy to do the rough work, she left the breakfast-in-bed, fine-lady business behind her and started right in to get the rest of the education that belonged to her.

2 Before starting-time in the morning, I had swapped two of my driving cows for four of their lame ones, and hauled up by the side of the road until I could break my new animals to the yoke and allow them to recuperate.

I had on a white straw hat that I had swapped for with one of the men; where he had got it, I don't know.

"'Swapped my reputation for a song,' eh? Where's my commission, now?" He got up, clasped his hands behind him, and walked a few times up and down the heavy rug, his footfalls silent.

Eighty natives were swapped for a mare, and a hundred for a lame horse.

When a boy of ten in 1844 I was swapped with a cousin, he going for a year to western New York, while I went for a year to the house of my aunt in Concord, the ancient homestead out of which eighty years before my great-grandfather had gone with gun in hand to take his part with the Minute Men.

Somehow he and his hat were as king and coronal in their mutual fitness; if he lost one, he swapped for another of about the same shade and shape.